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Considering this:: No of results your search returned: 3063 Total Pages: 613 It will take too long to copy all of them on to here! Please use the link above to access the page on the FSA site I copied them from. On that page you will be able to click on each name to view more information.

Below are the first 8 pages which covers from August 28, 2014- today, September 23 2014

Pertains to ALL accounts up to and including NASDAQ Level II accounts

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This is taking the game to a whole other level. BANKS have joined the corrupt activities that took over the FOREX market. Merrill Lynch is owned/run by Bank of America. They advertise themselves as investment and retirement advisers. Customers assume because its a bank that they can be trusted not to scam them. Their trust has been misplaced. They are out to take your money just like in the Forex market.

The Merril Lynch website is designed to look different than typical trading sites. There’s no Risk Statement link. It actually took over an hour of searching to find what I was looking for- the info that’s normally under “risk statement” or “customer account agreement” – The statement where they inform you about whats really going on.

They are required to tell you the truth -and they do. It says you cant trust their advice because they are paid to tell you where to invest by the various exchanges and or by the fund/securities provider. They state that they: Act as the counter party, Purchase holdings against you, act as market makers, profit 100% from acting as the Principle.They advise you to do what will make them the most money- regardless of if its thru your gain or your loss of funds. There’s more- read below….

Please read the statement below. Warn anyone you know who invests thru Merril Lynch in ANY form at all (mutual funds, securities, stock, all forms of investing)

Merrill Edge MarketPro™

Disclosure Information:

Disclosure Information: Material Aspects of Relationships with Venues to Which Customer Orders are Routed Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (“MLPF&S”) is a broker-dealer that executes customer orders as agent and/or principal and receives remuneration for performing these execution services. MLPF&S acts as a registered market maker in numerous Nasdaq securities and may execute customer orders in such securities on a principal basis. MLPF&S also may principally commit capital to facilitate customer transactions or serve as the contra-side to customer orders executed internally through one of the alternative trading systems operated by MLPF&S.

Investors should understand that MLPF&S stands to realize 100% of any profits or losses generated when MLPF&S trades as agent and/or principal in respect of customer orders.

Aside from holdings that MLPF&S may acquire from time-to-time as part of its ordinary market making, block positioning, client facilitation and related hedging activities, MLPF&S (or an affiliate under common control) may acquire equity stakes in market centers as part of a strategic investment. In this regard, MLPF&S or an affiliate owns a minority equity investment stake in the following market centers and therefore stands to participate as a shareholder/investor in the profits that each market center realizes in part from the execution of securities transactions, including transactions that may involve orders for the accounts of MLPF&S customers: (i) BATS Exchange, (ii) BIDS ATS, (iii) NYSE Amex, (iv) Chicago Stock Exchange, (v) Direct Edge Holdings (EDGA Exchange, EDGX Exchange and ISE Stock Exchange), (vi) eBX/LeveL ATS, (vii) NYSE Arca, (viii) NYSE Amex, (ix) CBOE C2, (x) Nasdaq Options Market, (xi) Nasdaq OMX Phlx.

Additionally, MLPF&S is affiliated with Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (“ML Pro”), which acts as a market maker on certain options exchanges, including the CBOE, CBOE C2, ISE, BATS Exchange, NYSE Arca, NYSE Amex, Nasdaq Options Market and Nasdaq OMX PHLX. Accordingly, MLPF&S may stand to indirectly share in the profits or losses that ML Pro generates by transacting as options market maker, including transactions that may involve orders for the accounts of MLPF&S customers.

MLPF&S routes customer and proprietary orders to national securities exchanges, alternative trading systems, electronic communications networks, and broker-dealers. Based on their fee schedules, certain market centers offer credits for orders that provide liquidity to their books and assess fees for orders that take liquidity from their books. In some cases, the credits offered by a market center to MLPF&S over a period of time may exceed the charges assessed. MLPF&S participates in the options order flow programs sponsored by the NYSE Amex Options, CBOE, ISE, NYSE Arca and PHLX. These exchange-sponsored programs offer payments for listed option orders that are directed to such options markets.

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I’m now researching the UK business documents and will post that info in a separate post. Link to the UK data on their website is here:

Where this communication is sent by a branch of Merrill Lynch International Bank Limited, please note that mutual fund materials are only directed at persons to whom, and are distributed only to persons to whom, unregulated collective investment schemes may be promoted in accordance with the rules of the UK Financial Services Authority, including in particular Rule 3.11 of the Conduct of Business sourcebook (“relevant persons”). Such investments are available only to, and any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire such investments will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on these materials. Merrill Lynch does not operate as a banking entity in all jurisdictions.

while its detailing that only the person whom it was sent to is whom can act on the offer- it reveals that the Financial Services Authority in UK allows Unregulated Collective Investment Schemes!

The Financial Services Authority is in charge of Regulating financial services – so why would it permit unregulated activities to be promoted to anyone?

My whole goal is to try protect people from getting scammed by the whole change in the FOREX market from real to simulated. While 9 thousand people have visited my blog- most come to try put advertising in the comment sections.

I’ve had maybe 25 real comments. Is that all the real readers I’ve had?

If this blog has helped you- please let me know, Gathering the information takes a lot of time and is pointless if no one is making use of it.

It drives me crazy that people sign these agreements without understanding what they are agreeing to! If you did understand- there’s no way you would sign!

BY SIGNING – YOU HAVE AGREED TO ALLOW THEM TO RIP YOU OFF USING MULTIPLE METHODS TO DO IT AND HAVE ALSO AGREED THAT YOU WONT TAKE ACTION AGAINST THEM FOR DOING IT.

FOREX.COM is GAIN CAPITAL

The following are just some of what you are agreeing to-First- they make sure you know they are working against you and that you cannot trust them. They detail how they will move the market against you and then have you agree with them doing this to you.

FOREX IS AN OVER THE COUNTER (OTC) MARKET, MEANING THE FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING YOU ARE ENTERING INTO ISNOTCONDUCTED ON AN EXCHANGE.

AS A MARKET MAKER, FOREX.COM IS THE COUNTERPARTY IN THESE TRANSACTIONS AND, THEREFORE, ACTS AS THE BUYER WHEN YOU SELL AND THE SELLER WHEN YOU BUY. AS A RESULT, FOREX.COM’S INTERESTS MAY BE IN CONFLICT WITH YOURS. UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN YOUR WRITTEN AGREEMENT OR OTHER WRITTEN DOCUMENTS

FOREX.COM ESTABLISHES THE PRICESAT WHICH IT OFFERS TO TRADE WITH YOU. THE PRICES OFFERED MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST PRICES AVAILABLE AND DIFFERENT PRICES MAY BE OFFERED TO DIFFERENT CUSTOMERS.

IF FOREX.COM ELECTS NOT TO COVER ITS OWN TRADING EXPOSURE, THEN YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT

FOREX.COM MAY MAKE MORE MONEY IF THE MARKET GOES AGAINST YOU. ADDITIONALLY, SINCE FOREX.COM

ACTS AS THE BUYER OR SELLER IN THE TRANSACTION, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY EVALUATE ANY TRADE

RECOMMENDATIONS YOU RECEIVE FROM FOREX.COM OR ANY OF ITS SOLICITORS.

I have read, and understand the Risk Disclosure

INTERPRETATION:

You are ONLY trading against your broker.

Your broker can choose to not cover their own exposure- causing the market to swing against you because they will profit more that way.

They control the prices you see+ they are the only other person trading with you therefore- they create the appearance of a market swing- to take your money away from you.

, or Metal Contracts with Customer. Each Bid Price or Ask Price shall be for a Spot

Contract with a specified Value Date and shall specify each Eligible Foreign Currency or tradable U.S. dollar based currency pairs involved where applicable

.FOREX.com expects that these prices will be reasonably related to the bid prices and ask prices available in the market at that time for similar transactions, but a number of factors, such as communication system delays, high volume or volatility can result in deviations between prices quoted by FOREX.com and other sources. FOREX.com makes no warranty, express or implied, that Bid Prices and Ask Prices represent prevailing bid prices and ask prices. In addition, these Bid and/or Ask Prices may reflect, at the direction of the Introducing Broker named above, additional pips added to the BID and/or ASK price that may result in an increase of the dealable spread available for the Customer’s account as well as a per trade or per lot commission and/or fees

INTERPRETATION:

They are not obligated to use prices that match what you might find on another site -keeping in mind- everyone makes there own prices and there is no actual market- your still just trading against your broker. Not other customers- meaning “high volume” and “volatility” don’t exist. They create the appearance of that environment at will.

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5.MARGIN REQUIREMENTS

Customer’s Account will be under the control of FOREX.com FOREX.com may change Margin requirements at any time, without prior notice to Customer, and may call for additional Margin (“Margin Call”) at (x) any time Customer’s Margin Balance falls below FOREX.com ’s Minimum Margin Requirement as applied to that Account;and (y) any timeFOREX.com, in its sole discretion, believes that it is prudent to do so.FOREX.com may at any time liquidate Customer’s Account in accordance with Paragraph 9.FOREX.com may withdraw funds from the Customer’s account without notice: (x) to ensure that Posted Margin equals or exceeds Required Margin; and (y) to satisfy any payment obligation to FOREX.com, including commissions,fees and charges in respect of Customer’s Account.

INTERPRETATION:

They control your account

They can change your margin requirement for no reason at all and

They don’t have to tell you before they change it. Furthermore

They can liquidate your account if it doesnt meet the new limit

and do it without prior notice

You want to know how these companies take peoples money? You sign an agreement that says they can! Who in there right mind would agree to have them get to move your margin limit without warning or notification? Then get to liquidate your account based on the new requirement- without ever notifying you! And they get to do this at their sole discretion- that means they are not required to have any form of valid reason. They can do it just because they feel like it. They have the freedom to decide what the margin will be at their sole discretion as well- there are no standards they have to follow. They can double your margin requirement, or triple it- well… they will move it exactly enough to make sure you dont have enough in your account to cover it- at the same time swinging the market against your outstanding orders- thereby not only taking all your money- but making it so you then owe them money for the losses that happened when they liquidated.

I dont have time to keep writing this all out- just read each paragraph carefully-The words that alert you to foul play are as follows

“without notice”= they don’t have to tell you they did something- like change the agreement- and continuing to trade = agreeing to the changes they made- but how are you supposed to know changes were made? exactly!

read these sections carefully!

4.3. Trade Matching

4.5. Position& Trading Limits (they can control the speed you trade, the number of contracts you can hold- whatever is necessary to keep you from getting ahead.

REMEMBER- their income comes from taking your money. For you to profit- they have to take a loss. Commission is only a tiny recoup of the money they lost- it’s not a profit for them at all. To stay in business- they can’t let you keep any money you win and they have to take your money as well. They are paid to use all these rules to make sure you walk away with nothing. If you have made money- they will make it hard to get it out – while making the market suddenly look favorable- so you will reinvest not just your starting money- but your profits as well- and they keep you winning until you get confident and get close to your margin- then boom- they move your margin and take everything.

FXCM told me how this is all done. The whole game that is being played on people. He told me (back in 2009) that no one had ever walked away with one dime from them. Every single person that traded with them eventually lost everything- and then some. He was the CEO of the company- warning me not to trade a charity’s money. At least they had enough morals to stop me. While I’m grateful- I took it upon myself to try warn everyone else.

I don’t even know if anyone is being saved by my blog. If anyone even cares that this blog exists.

If you want me to keep writing this blog- please tell me as a comment.

Below is the list of non-registered or non-authorized entities with the FSA, based on information received from investors. Investors should be aware that the solicitations of investment by these listed entities have a possibility of cold calling. Please be reminded that other suspected cold callers may exist and additional entities may be listed. Please also be advised that there have been cases where different companies were located in addresses indicated in the list below. The fact that the address is put in the list below does not mean that such companies have any connection to the listed entities.

Investors Alert by the IOSCO

In February, 2002, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) released a statement of “Investors Alert on cold calling,” of which points are as follows:

Generally speaking, an entity is required to have some form of authorization by the regulators in the country where the investors that it would solicit reside, in order to conduct financial/securities business. There is a possibility that cold callers do not have such authorization and they are involved in illegal activities by which investors lose their money.

Therefore, investors should not make an investment solely on the basis of “cold calls.” Before making an investment decision and paying money, investors should, at the very least, check whether the entities are given registration and/or authorization as securities dealers, investment advisers, etc., by the regulators in the jurisdictions where the investors reside and the entities claim to operate. Investors also should make serious inquiries into the legitimacy of the entity if the entity promises spectacular returns or “guaranteed” profits.

The IOSCO Asian Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) also announced a press release in February, 2002. The APRC members, including the FSA, expressed their intension to enhance cooperation, mutual assistance and information-sharing to detect illegal activities, as well as to publicize the names of unlicensed/unregistered entities, in order to prevent investors from becoming victims by fraudulent activities.